Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications

Ever since I switched to Final Cut Pro and PDFExpert on my Mac and canceled my creative cloud subscription I haven’t looked back. The heaviness of adobes additional apps and trying to push their cloud subscription running on my machine 24/7 just isn’t worth it.

Re: Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications

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Post by rpastuszak » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 7:35 PM UTC

I made a list of alternatives to Adobe software which some people here found helpful: https://untested.sonnet.io/Alternatives+to+Adobe

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 7:36 PM UTC

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Re: Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications

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Post by chx » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 7:39 PM UTC

passwordoops wrote: post #2

Adobe's PR re: the response to these changes https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...

That might be the change but the problem is 4.2 let me quote in full

> Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate as intended, such as enabling you to share photos with others. Separately, section 4.6 (Feedback) below covers any Feedback that you provide to us.

If Adobe says, training an AI on subscriber content would improve Adobe service then IANAL but I think this section gives them the right and then said AI might leak creative content. Further since they can sublicense to say OpenAI, hell knows what happens to it once they do.

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Post by chimen » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 7:42 PM UTC

Adobe is a virus. You cannot get rid of it. I have an old payment subscription at them that I cannot cancel even after calling the bank. You can't veen close it from the process list without sacrificing 2 hours.

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Post by SoftTalker » Sat, Jun 08, 2024, 7:43 PM UTC

rpastuszak wrote: post #6

I made a list of alternatives to Adobe software which some people here found helpful: https://untested.sonnet.io/Alternatives+to+Adobe

My perception is that Adobe stuff is kind of like Oracle. Overweight, expensive, free/open alternatives do just as well in most cases but if you really need to fully exploit the feature set, and really need a big company support agreement, there is no substitute.

Also if you are a creative business, most anyone you would want to hire will know Adobe tools. Very few will be familiar with gimp, inkscape, or command-line utilities.